A participant from a 2018 complexity workshop I ran in The Hague, reflecting on an experience. From a piece in The Walrus by Troy Jollimore, a philosophy professor, on his evolving relationship to students, AI and education: The use of AI already seems so natural to so many of them, so much an inevitability and an accepted feature of the educational landscape, that any prohibition strikes them as nonsensical. Don’t we instructors understand that today’s students will be able, will indeed be expected, to use AI when they enter the workforce? Writing is no longer something people will have to do …
Mindfulness, awareness and the move from confusion to aporia to resourcefulness in the Cynefin framework.
I’m here in Columbus, Ohio doing my annual gig with the Physcians’ Leadership Academy. Every year I get to run a half day complexity workshop for local physicians. It’s a fun gig and gets me a chance to see friends in this region and make a stop in Toronto on the way. Today was a weird day to cross the border though. For the past month, and especially the past weekend, the conversation that almost everybody in Canada is having is about the US tariffs that came into effect at 12:01 this morning. Blanket 25% tariffs on everything that crosses …
Links and reading, listening and viewing recommendations for February 2025
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